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- Contribute to the core business of the World Heritage Team by fostering a greater understanding of World Heritage and its benefits, both across Scotland and for individual World Heritage Sites.
- Lead on the management and delivery of education and outreach activities including events, development and management of digital and physical resources and promotional materials.
- Lead on communications for the World Heritage Team, including liaising with internal and external partners and stakeholders and outreach to the general public.
- Maintain and develop key relationships with internal and external partners and stakeholders internally and externally with and liaise with them as needed.
- Line Manage the World Heritage Support Officer.
- Contribute to the broader work of the World Heritage and Heritage Policy team, liaising across the whole team as necessary.
- Contribute to the delivery of the Heritage Directorate operating plan in support of strategic business objectives in the HES Corporate Plan and Our Past, Our Future, the national strategy for the Historic Environment.
- You will be expected to travel to locations across Scotland as required. The post is mostly desk-based however you will from time to time be required to attend site visits, events and/or meetings across Scotland.
Person specification
Essential requirements:
- Experience of developing and delivering learning and outreach proposals/events, ideally within the heritage sector
- Experience in dealing with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to deliver on agreed objectives
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with demonstrable experience of communicating with a wide range of customers and audiences.
- Time management and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage tasks to deliver objectives, including ability to adapt approach to changing circumstances where necessary
- Good interpersonal skills that contribute to collaborative/team working and providing customer focussed service provision
- Creative flair and problem-solving skills
- High degree of self-management capacity
Desirable requirements:
Knowledge and understanding of issues and policy in Scottish heritage and/or World Heritage
- Experience in line management / supervision of staff and volunteers
- Budget management experience
- Knowledge and experience of information management and good working knowledge of Microsoft Office
Qualifications & Professional Memberships:
SCQF Level 9 qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent experience Desirable
- Membership of a relevant professional body – Desirable
Benefits
£9,039 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We welcome applications from all nationalities, assuming that they have the right to work in the UK: applying for a job with us could open the door to a unique work environment. It will give you job satisfaction and excellent development opportunities, plus a competitive salary, 25 days paid holidays (rising to 30 days after 3 years service) and 11.5 public holidays a year pro rata for part time staff.
In addition, we offer a great benefits package to our employees which includes:
- flexible working hours (where appropriate)
- special leave
- maternity/paternity leave
- adoption leave
- reimbursement for relevant professional subscriptions
- support for further education and personal development
- study leave for work related courses
- access to a learning resource centre
Health and welfare
We offer you access to:
- our Employee Assistance Programme for confidential advice and counselling
- an occupational sick pay scheme
- discounts at some local authority leisure facilities
- access to a free Headspace membership
- interest free loans for bicycles and annual travel passes (see season ticket below)
- reasonable adjustments when needed, as part of our Equalities policy
Staff discounts
You will receive:
- free entry to all of our properties (with up to three guests)
- free entry to English Heritage, Manx and Cadw properties
- 20% off purchases in our retail outlets
Season tickets
You can receive an advance to help with the cost of buying an annual season ticket for travel between home and work. The advance is then repaid from your salary over the life of the season ticket. Available to all permanent and fixed-term staff.
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Guidance on completing the application can be found in the Guidance notes for applicants document, also available at the above website, which we recommend that you read, in conjunction with this Job Description.
Your application must arrive by the advertised closing date. Please note that when applying online, we will only be able to see your application once you fully submit it.
If you are unable to complete an online application form, please email recruit@hes.scot, quoting the job title and recruitment reference, and we will arrange for an application form to be sent to you.
Please note that, as we operate an electronic recruitment system, we will contact you via the email address that you provide in your application to inform you of the outcome of your application.
We welcome all applicants from under-represented groups within HES. We know from our equality monitoring that we need to increase our diversity in terms of ethnicity and disability. We also want to address occupational areas where the ratio is disproportionately in favour of women or men. We ask all applicants to complete the Equality Monitoring section of the recruitment paperwork to help us pursue a diverse and inclusive workforce. In support of our Gaelic language plan we welcome applications from Gaelic speakers.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Job contact :
- Name : Alice Lyall Deputy Head of World Heritage
- Email : alice.lyall@hes.scot
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- Email : recruit@hes.scot
